The French are for the millionaire. The Americans are for the maid. Among the French, three out of five think the IMF’s former managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has been framed. (Strauss-Kahn tendered his resignation as…
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About a decade ago, I interviewed Latino musical legend Carlos Santana near his longtime home in Marin, just as he was about to explode in popularity again after long years of lower profile here in…
“Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Morning: A beautiful day in Mendocino, the rhododendrons madly blooming, the headlands a riot of wild roses and wild irises and wild…
As a nearby neighbor, it was decided that Maire came to my house and we sat down in the dining room, she with a cup of peppermint tea and me with a large mug of…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Despite my quite substantial weekly intake of wine, primarily for health reasons as you know, I didn’t really take part in any…
Many years ago while browsing the bookstore, I ran across a book which contained the addresses of famous sports legends. Well! It was the middle of winter and I had nothing better to do, so…
Many years ago, my great-grandparents, Arthur and Elsie Allen, were given a lot on old Coyote Valley. They cleared it and planted grapes. The pace at which the land was cleared upset the local agent…
A few years ago our fine editor Bruce Anderson and I read the same article in a popular monthly magazine about steroids and competitive amateur bicycle racing. The article was written by a man in…
In the fall of 2008, the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources devoted an entire 88-page edition of its quarterly magazine, California Agriculture, to profiling a trend known as “sustainable viticulture.” Broadly…